Icons gone crazy.

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Hi, i have been given a friends compute to sort out. Running XP the system
seems to boot fine straight into an account. The desktop loads, but the
icons are all unreconised. It seems as though i cant run any lnk files.

Does anyone have any sugestions?

 

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"TheOx2k" wrote:

> Hi, i have been given a friends compute to sort out. Running XP the system
> seems to boot fine straight into an account. The desktop loads, but the
> icons are all unreconised. It seems as though i cant run any lnk files.
>
> Does anyone have any sugestions?

http://dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

 

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Apply the .LNK association fix from:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"TheOx2k" <TheOx2k@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, i have been given a friends compute to sort out. Running XP the
> system
> seems to boot fine straight into an account. The desktop loads, but the
> icons are all unreconised. It seems as though i cant run any lnk files.
>
> Does anyone have any sugestions?